Dr. Christian Sellar is a Professor of Public Policy Leadership in the Department of Public Policy Leadership at the University of Mississippi.
Research Interests
Dr. Christian Sellar’s primary teaching interest is in the area of regional economic/social development, economic governance, international political economy and institutional change. He focuses on the international dimension of policy making, blending geopolitics, sociology and economic geography. He teaches courses on the European Union, border policies, international corporations as institutions, political and economic geography, and geographies of conservatism.
Biography
Dr. Sellar received his B.A. and M.A. in communication studies from the Università degli Studi di Trieste in Italy. He received his Ph.D. in geo-history and geo-economy of border regions from Università degli Studi di Trieste in 2006 in Italy, and his second Ph.D. in geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007.
Dr. Sellar's research is in the areas of geopolitics - especially the geopolitical role of internationalizing firms to reshape state structures. Second, he looks at the geography of ideology as a belief system. He has published extensively in human geography and international business journals. To date, he has two books in print.
Publications
Books:
Sellar, Christian & Battisti, Gianfranco. (2023). Geopolitical Perspectives from the Italian Border: Introducing Gianfranco Battisti, Triestino Geographer. 10.1007/978-3-031-26044-5.
Articles:
Berns, John P., et al. “Whole Country-of-Origin Network Development Abroad.” Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 52, no. 3, 2021, pp. 479–503.
Sellar, C. (2019). "Transnationalizing bureaucracies through investment promotion: The case of Informest." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(3), 461-479.
Sellar, C., Lan, T., & Poli, U. (2017). "The Geoeconomics/Politics of Italy’s Investment Promotion Community." Geopolitics, 23(3), 690–717.
Sellar, C. (2015). "Italian banks and business services as knowledge pipelines for SMEs: Examples from Central and Eastern Europe." European Urban and Regional Studies, 22(1), 41-60.
Sellar, C. & Rudolf Pástor, 2015. "Mutating Neoliberalism: The Promotion of Italian Investors in Slovakia before and after the Global Financial Crisis," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(2), pages 342-360.
Sellar, C. (2014). "Building a Transnational Fusion Bureaucracy? A Study of State Officials and Opinion Leaders in Rousse (Bulgaria) and Transcarpathia (Ukraine)." Geopolitics, 19(3), 540–564.
Sellar, C. (2013). "Europeanizing Timisoara: neoliberal reforms, continuity with the past, and unexpected side effects." GeoJournal 78, 1–19.
Hirt, S., Sellar, C., & Young, C. (2013). "Neoliberal Doctrine Meets the Eastern Bloc: Resistance, Appropriation and Purification in Post-Socialist Spaces." Europe-Asia Studies, 65(7), 1243–1254.
Sellar, C., & McEwen, L. (2011). "A cosmopolitan analysis of the contradictions in EU regional and enlargement policies as drivers of Europeanization." European Urban and Regional Studies, 18(3), 289-305.
Sellar, C., & Emilova, M., & Petkova‐Tancheva, CD., & Mcneil, K., (2011). "Cluster Policies in Bulgaria: European Integration, Postsocialist Dynamics and Local Level Initiatives," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(2), pages 358-378.
Sellar, C. (2009). "Geographical imaginaries of the ‘New Europe’ and the ‘East’ in a business context: the case of Italian investors in Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine." Journal of Cultural Geography, 26(3), 327–348.
Sellar, C., Staddon, C., & Young, C. (2009). "Twenty years after the Wall: geographical imaginaries of ‘Europe’ during European Union enlargement." Journal of Cultural Geography, 26(3), 253–258.
Sellar, C., & Pickles, J. (2002). "Where Will Europe End? Ukraine and the Limits of European Integration." Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, 43(2), 123–142.
Courses Taught
- PPL 377 Geographies of Conservatism
- PPL 388 Policies of the European Union
- PPL 328 Public Policy and the Corporation
- PPL 329 Economic Geographies of Globalization
- PPL 330 Border Policies: the Global Dimension
Education
Ph.D. Geography, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2007)